South Korea is determined to boost its birth rate, having joined Japan as a "super-aged" society, with more than 20 percent ...

With scant immigration, South Korea’s total population is expected to drop from 51.75 million in 2024 to 36.22 million, a level not seen since 1977, according to Statistics Korea.

South Korea's population pyramid in 2060 is as follows. The population would fall by 30%, shrinking from 51.7 million to 35.8 million, meaning that about 16 million people would disappear.

In a development sparking cautious optimism, South Korea, a nation long plagued by an alarmingly low birth rate and rapidly ...

South Korea’s workforce distribution has shifted into an “inverted pyramid,” with older workers now making up the largest share, reversing a decades-long trend. In the 1980s, younger workers ...

South Korea's fertility rate, presently at a mere 0.78 per 1,000 women according to Statistics Korea, falls far below the replacement rate required to sustain a stable population, estimated at 2.1 ...

Fifty-one million in South Korea, ... The difficulty is going back down to a much smaller population very fast, because that turns the normal ‘population pyramid’ upside-down.

SEOUL — South Korea has become a “super-aged society,” with 20 percent of its population aged 65 or older, official data showed on Tuesday, a gloomy trend driven by an alarmingly low birth rate.

But South Korea is distinctive in that it slipped into below-replacement territory in the 1980s but lately has been falling even more — dropping below one child per woman in 2018 to 0.8 after ...

With scant immigration, South Korea’s total population is expected to drop from 51.75 million in 2024 to 36.22 million, a level not seen since 1977, according to Statistics Korea.